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Sr. Staff Lead Site Reliability Engineer (R5803)

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and

Company

Shield AI

Location

San Mateo, California

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-03T16:06:11.445+00:00

Shield AI's Hivemind group needs a lead for a new site reliability engineering function. The person sets reliability targets with Cloud Engineering and product teams, improves observability, and makes production systems operable and recoverable. The job is hands-on: investigating complex failures, improving the tooling that runs the platforms, and turning incident lessons into engineering changes. It also carries technical leadership duties — mentoring engineers in Cloud Engineering and Reliability and promoting reliability-first design. Based in San Mateo, on-site, full-time.